Reducere. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was born into luxury and made that advantage a tool to become a leader in the Aesthetic and Art Nouveau movements...
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Reducere. For hundreds of years Bombay held India in thrall. A metropolis, reclaimed from ocean and iniquity, it effortlessly manufactured the dreams that ca...
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Reducere. John Muir: passionate, eccentric, inventive, tenacious. All these words together add up to the story of one of America's most beloved conservationi...
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Reducere. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American painter who spent little time in the US. He grew up in a privileged, somewhat nomadic family living...
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Reducere. DescriptionRuth Bader Ginsburg leads a life of ethics and grace. She is the super-hero of gender equality for both men and women. As the second wom...
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Reducere. Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our so...
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Reducere. George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the wo...
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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...
Reducere. We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even ...
Reducere. America knew George Zimmer for one of the most famous slogans in television advertising history: "I guarantee it." Zimmer rode his promise to lead ...
Reducere. In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders foll...
Reducere. To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon's V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150...
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Reducere. George Grantphilosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist, Christianwas one of Canada's most significant thinkers, and the author of Lament for a...
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Reducere. For centuries Christians have puzzled over what role to take in world affairs. Grant claims that this role should be based on the insight of Micah ...
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Reducere. What did "Son of God, " "Messiah, " and "Lord, " mean to the first Christians when they used these words to describe their beliefs about Jesus? In ...
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Reducere. Born in South Africa in 1971, young Elon Musk loved inventions. He later founded Tesla, SpaceX, and the company that would become PayPal. Read abou...
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Reducere. DescriptionH. P. Lovecraft has been the source of unending fascination since his death in 1937. He himself chronicled many aspects of his life in t...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe twenty-five-year old Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and took off for Paris dete...
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